In a Free State
Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fic...
Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fic...
